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A configurable storage drive includes multiple types of storage such as magnetic media and solid state storage and can implement any of multiple valid configuration modes. A user of the configurable storage drive can select the particular configuration mode so desired to achieve, for example, a desired number of input and output transactions per second. In one example, a service provider network includes multiple such configurable storage drives and customers of the service provider can configure their respective storage drives independently and differently from the other service provider customers. The service provider can opt to provide for selection to its customers all or only a subset of the possible valid configuration modes for selection by the customers. For example, storage drive configuration modes that would result in higher power consumption levels by the storage drives might not be offered to the customers.
